Month: September 2016

When we, the Wordbred team, reached the venue of this poetry recitation event, titled “Khayaal… Let’s Word It”, the venue being Ardor, Connaught Place, we shared a mixed emotion. One mix was of confusion, since as a principle any reciting or performance venue has a dedicated stage, with all seats oriented towards it, whereas over […]

Conversations about my favorite authors will always revolve around David Foster Wallace, Camus, Kafka, Vonnegut and the likes. However in the shadows, the way the man liked it himself, a certain J.D. Salinger will always be extant. Touted unfairly as a “one hit wonder” for his opus Catcher in the Rye – or on the […]

Books all around, books galore. So many books with the female characters having no agency. Now, have you read the Inheritance cycle? The women are strong, the women are independent. They have power, agency and a certain prowess. Take any female in the series. Nasuada Led the Varden against an empire. Subdued the men who […]

Penning down endorsements for literary linchpins is quite a Sisyphean task to fare. But then, if it is H.P. Lovecraft’s oeuvre, one feels drawn towards the story so much that the elusive challenge seems to evoke a different thrill altogether. This review is going to be an endorsement for one of his most extolled works, […]

The catastrophe here, was as minor as a wreck. A wreck, making the riddle of fate’s existence. A wreck trampling love and exchanging lives. To let you be introduced to the gruesome tale of , I sing: The history of the known knows no bondage of the past, Its land was a father to […]

You have a Sherlock fandom, you have a Potter fandom, there is Supernatural, Doctor Who, Divergent, LoTR, Hunger Games, John Green and also hotchpotch medleys like Superwholock. The fandom missing in action is the fandom of Eragon. The dragon riders, the Inheritance fans, the Eragonians, the dragons, Du Fandom Varden. Where are they, where are […]

Long before the Illuminati started lurking in the shadows, it was a secret society that opposed superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power. A quick read of Doctor Faustus presents him as a hero of German folklore and a plain Christian villain. Illuminati may be spoken of in hushed tones, […]

This is an interpretation article and thus obviously delves into potential spoilers. Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez wrote with such titillating and tantalizing charm and pizazz that he is arguably noted as one of the most significant authors of the preceding century. He has left behind a large legacy of novels and short stories dealing […]

Stories; some inspire, some scare, some move; all of them are a literary version of life. And then there are some so painfully honest that our feeble conscience, in its conveniently sheltered milieu, would rather choose to live in denial. Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night is one such extraordinary memoir of growing up in the trouble-torn […]